{"title":"Blockchain-Based Trusted Achievement Record System Design","authors":"Bakri Awaji, E. Solaiman, L. Marshall","doi":"10.1145/3411681.3411689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3411681.3411689","url":null,"abstract":"The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a design of a blockchain-based system, which produces a verifiable record of achievements. Such a system has a wide range of potential benefits for students, employers and higher education institutions. A verifiable record of achievements enables students to present academic accomplishments to employers, within a trusted framework. Furthermore, the availability of such a record system would enable students to review their learning throughout their career, giving them a platform on which to plan for their future accomplishments, both individually and with support from other parties (for example, academic advisors, supervisors, or potential employers). The proposed system will help students in universities to increase their extra-curricular activities and improve non-academic skills. Moreover, the system will facilitate communication between industry, students, and universities for employment purposes and simplify the search for the most appropriate potential employees for the job.","PeriodicalId":279225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Education Innovations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131223448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the Requirements for Building a Blockchain-Based Achievement Record System","authors":"Bakri Awaji, E. Solaiman, L. Marshall","doi":"10.1145/3411681.3411691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3411681.3411691","url":null,"abstract":"A trusted achievement record is a secure system that aims to record and authenticate certificates as well as key learning activities and achievements. This paper intends to gather important information on the thoughts and outlooks of stakeholders on an achievement record system that uses blockchain and smart contract technology. The system would allow stakeholders (for example employers) to validate learning records. Two main aims are investigated. The first is to evaluate the suitability of the idea of building a trusted achievement record for learners in higher education, and to evaluate potential user knowledge of blockchain technology. This is to ensure that a designed system is usable. The second aim includes an interview conducted with a small group of participants to gather information about the challenges individuals have when creating, and reviewing CVs. Overall, 90% of participants agreed that there was a strong need for a trusted achievement record. In addition, 93.64% of respondents stated that they felt it was invaluable to have a system that is usable by all stakeholders. When tackling the second aim it was found that a primary challenge is lack of knowledge of blockchain and its complexity. From the employers' perspective, there is a lack of trust due to inaccuracies when students describe skills and qualifications in their resumes.","PeriodicalId":279225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Education Innovations","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117176729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blockchain-Based Applications in Higher Education: A Systematic Mapping Study","authors":"Bakri Awaji, E. Solaiman, Adel Albshri","doi":"10.1145/3411681.3411688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3411681.3411688","url":null,"abstract":"The utilisation of blockchain has moved beyond digital currency to other fields such as health, the Internet of Things, and education. In this paper, we present a systematic mapping study to collect and analyse relevant research on blockchain technology related to the higher education field. The paper concentrates on two main themes. First, it examines state of the art in blockchain-based applications that have been developed for educational purposes. Second, it summarises the challenges and research gaps that need to be addressed in future studies.","PeriodicalId":279225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Education Innovations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114788380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of Neural Networks for Classifying Images of Deaf Horses","authors":"Neeraj Rattehalli, I. Jain","doi":"10.1145/3411681.3411694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3411681.3411694","url":null,"abstract":"Equine deafness profoundly impacts the ways owners can interact with their horses; while deafness prevents many auditory distractions, it also requires trainers to communicate differently than with other horses. While the splashed-white genes (SW-1 through SW-5) have been known to express themselves in near-full facial coverage with white hair in addition to blue eyes, it regularly entails deafness in the host. Current diagnoses of the SW-5 gene are primarily limited to proprietary genome analysis provided by equine diagnostics companies such as Etalon Diagnostics, which requires both money and time. Our approach to diagnosing SW-5 leverages the present phenotype-genotype relationship to convert this diagnosis into an image classification task. We propose a technique that uses a convolutional neural network in order to classify SW-5 horses solely based on physical attributes. Our classifier predicted the SW-5 gene with 97.49% accuracy and 5.88% loss, which provides an instantaneous prediction within margins of confidence.","PeriodicalId":279225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Education Innovations","volume":"257 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117351518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}